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Snapchat: Privacy as perishable as the photos

April 17, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

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Users of the popular, fairly new Snapchat app tend to like it because a photo vanishes within 10 seconds or less of being viewed by its recipient. That adds something fun, spontaneous and just "real" to photo-sharing that's pretty unprecedented in social media. New parents' guide Here's why: Typically in social networking, "users tend to feel pressure 
to curate the perfect representation of … [Read more...] about Snapchat: Privacy as perishable as the photos

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: apps, cellphones, hacks, kids, mobile phones, mods, Parenting, parents, photo-sharing, Snapchat, workarounds

Notes from a ‘Digital Kids’ conference

February 21, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

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In case parents are interested in what the toy and digital industries are thinking about and designing for kids... Digital play that's both mobile and tactile was the centerpiece of what all the adults were talking about at the Digital Kids conference in New York last week, but their insights were like "frozen concentrate" compared to those from a panel of kids aged 8-13. Moderated by … [Read more...] about Notes from a ‘Digital Kids’ conference

Filed Under: apps, gaming, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: apps, digital devices, digital kids conference, digital toys, disney, games, kids, mobile apps, Nickelodeon, phones, Sony, tablets, video games, virtual worlds

It’s time to outgrow the ‘kids, these days’ cliche

January 11, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Every generation, we adults seem to swing between fear of young people and fear for them. Of course now, with the advent of social media, it's really justified, right? Actually, no, even less so. More on that in a second. In a commentary at Forbes.com, parent and tech policy analyst Adam Thierer at George Mason University asks a very good question: "Why Do We Always Sell the Next Generation … [Read more...] about It’s time to outgrow the ‘kids, these days’ cliche

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Adam Thierer, David Finkelhor, Don Tapscott, generation gap, kids, Parenting, Social Media, tech parenting

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NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
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Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
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Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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